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Australian wins Fields Medal - Mathematics' Top Prize

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:34 AM EDT

Article Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

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Professor Terence Tao of UCLA has been awarded the Fields Medal for his work in harmonic analysis and number theory. The medal is considered by some to be mathematics' equivalent of the Nobel Prize and is award to mathematicians under 40 who have made major contributions to the field. This is the first time the medal has been given to an Australian.

The 31 year old Tao is no stranger to accolades, having become the youngest professor to receive the title at the age of 24 after completing a PhD at Princeton in 1996. He is also the youngest competitor to have won a gold medal in the International Mathematics Olympiad, doing so before he was 13.

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Gideon Polya

Mark - Great story for everyone - but particularly so for Australians, Crow Eaters (South Australians) and graduates (like Professor Tao) of the Flinders University of South Australia (I am particularly pleased because Flinders was my alma mater too; I believe I was the first person to start and successfully gain a PhD from Flinders, 1966-1969).

Flinders University is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Adelaide University claims 2 Nobel Laureates (son Lawrence and father William Bragg; Bragg's Law in X-ray crystallography; Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for their work in the UK) - now Adelaide's Flinders University can claim a similarly eminent son since the Fields Medal is like a Nobel Prize for Mathematics.

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